From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 03:00:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE21F1065711 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E7A8FC1E for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 9514904; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:17 -0500 Received: from [192.168.43.221] (account jon@radel.com HELO braeburn.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 9514902 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4B985CB1.4060306@radel.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:01 -0500 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100311022344.GP30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <11167f521003101834u15c8468bq3606b05b1788d967@mail.gmail.com> <20100311024735.GS30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100311024735.GS30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms030404060802000909060508" X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: can't ping localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:21 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030404060802000909060508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Well, the ping issue is just an example. > My real problem is that sendmail can't send > anything locally: > > # tail /var/log/maillog > Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0irgd029426: to=3D= mexas, ctladdr=3Dmexas (1001/1001), delay=3D01:32:05, xdelay=3D00:00:00, = mailer=3Drelay, pri=3D480031, relay=3D[127.0.0.1], dsn=3D4.0.0, stat=3DDe= ferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Well, have you considered looking to see if it's right? What do you get = in response to: $ netstat -rn | grep 127 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 64746 lo0 $ Showing what I get on a 7.0 server. Unless they've moved things around since 7.0, you probably want to make=20 sure that you've not messed with the ifconfig_lo0 line in=20 /etc/defaults/rc.conf. My apologies if that config stuff has changed in the latest; I don't=20 have access to the latest right now. --=20 --Jon Radel jon@radel.com --------------ms030404060802000909060508--